![]() ![]() Maisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. ![]() ![]() Finalist for the Inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award Maisie Dobbs-one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction ( Richmond Times Dispatch )-faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Dragon slippers series book 4![]() ![]() When Creel discovers Velika Shardas dives into the Boiling Sea after Velika and saves her. ![]() He recognizes what her slippers are but doesn't inform her which has dire consequences.Īfter the slippers are stolen by Amalia of Roulain and she uses them to control all of the Dragons, Shardas destroys much of King's Seat. Shardas meets Creel and introduces her to the world of Dragons. It is rare for them to actually take anything for their hoard that was in use. It comes to light later in the series that most of the Dragon's Hoards are treasure that are saved from abandoned buildings or that have thrown out. These windows are what inspires Creel in her embroider designs. From the ending point of Dragon Slippers through the majority of Dragon Flight, his scales are shedding in burned patches and his wings are heavily damaged, with enough holes that they look like lace. Shardas is a male dragon with gold scales, claws and wings, blue eyes, sapphire horns, and a barbed tail tip. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan![]() Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible. ![]() ![]() In what The Boston Globe calls his greatest achievement, Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. ![]() In this sweeping history Irelands best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies. Book Synopsis During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Irelands citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. In this grand, sweeping narrative, Irelands best-known historian gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history. ![]() Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated. About the Book During a biblical seven years in the middle of the 19th century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s clear from her rather batty letters that Berlin’s mind was always skipping ahead and reversing on itselfīerlin is now often held up alongside her male coevals – and fellow alcoholics – Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, so-called “dirty realists”, who cast cold, appraising eyes at the underbelly of American life. Her stories were published by small journals and university presses from the 1960s to the 1980s, but her name remained a secret literary handshake among devotees such as Saul Bellow and Lydia Davis. She lived variously in Texas, Chile, New Mexico and New York, tried every kind of job from cleaner to university professor and experienced both wealth and poverty. ![]() She was married three times – to a work-obsessed sculptor, an uncommunicative jazz pianist and a charming drug addict – and had four sons before the age of 30. Evening in Paradise is a collection of 22 more raw, elliptical, devilishly funny tales that draw on her own precarious, peripatetic life. Berlin died in 2004 and became something of a literary sensation in 2015 when 43 of her 77 stories were anthologised in A Manual for Cleaning Women. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Finlay donovan is killing it book![]() ![]() ![]() Back before I’d known my husband was sleeping with our real estate agent, who also sat on the board of the homeowners association. I’d liked South Riding, before the divorce. It was also just far enough outside the city to convince otherwise sane people to buy life-size inflatable dolls so they could slither into the HOV lane without getting a ticket, or without being subjected to a drive-by shooting by any of the rest of us who had not yet sold our souls to buy inflatable dolls of our own.ĭon’t get me wrong. ![]() My two-story colonial in South Riding was just close enough to the city to make ten o’clock sound reasonable when I’d scheduled it. My agent was already on a train from Grand Central to Union Station, where I was supposed to meet her for a brunch reservation at a restaurant I couldn’t afford so we could discuss exactly how overdue I was on my deadline for a book I had started three times and probably would never finish because … Jesus, look around me. If you’ve never had to wrestle a two-year-old slathered in maple syrup into a diaper while your four-year-old decides to give herself a haircut in time for preschool, all while trying to track down the whereabouts of your missing nanny as you sop up coffee grounds from an overflowing pot because in your sleep-deprived fog you forgot to put in the filter, let me spell it out for you. On the particular morning of Tuesday, October eighth, I was ready by seven forty-five. ![]() It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() The game has changed, and playing by the old rules only gets you left behind. Don't rely on the "how we did it" tales from superstar startups, as these stories are unique and applied to exceptional scenarios. This book shows you how startup funding works, with expert coaching toward the new rules on the field. When the paradigm changes, your processes must change with it. Changes are occurring at an increasing pace in all sectors, but few more intensely than the startup sphere. The finance world is in a massive state of flux. You'll find tips and tricks on raising money and investing in startups from early stage to growth stage, and develop a clear strategy based on the new realities surrounding today's startup landscape. This book helps you navigate the online world of startup fundraising with easy-to-follow explanations and expert perspective on the new digital world of finance. These new waters are all but uncharted-and founders need an accessible guide. New regulations are making the old go-to advice less relevant, as startup money is increasingly moving online. The Art of Startup Fundraising takes a fresh look at raising money for startups, with a focus on the changing face of startup finance. Startup money is moving online, and this guide shows you how it works. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Winnie the pooh box set![]() Ideal for for christenings, birthdays or Christmas.A wonderful collectable library of beautiful books. Winnie the pooh and piglet keepsake box, memory chest, birthday, Christmas, unique gift, friendship, childs box, with painted detail. Packed full with the adventures of Winnie, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore and the gang as they head off on an expedition to the North Pole and build a house for Eeyore. The full collection of 30 enchanting tales from Hundred Acre Wood, the Winnie-the-Pooh collection is presented in a unique gift box. Featuring all of Christopher Robins exploits, these charming hardback stories are enduring literary classics that are bound to delight all ages. Winnie The Pooh Gift Set by A.A. The full collection of 30 glorious and enchanting tales from Hundred Acre Wood, the Winnie-the-Pooh collection from the brilliant A.A. ![]() Reading Adventures Winnie The Pooh Level Pre-1 Boxed Set. A Great alternative to the following christening sets (Peter Rabbit box set, Thomas the tank Classic Box Set and Alice in Wonderland) We have the best selection of Winnie the Pooh books, toys, dvds and more at. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The future of history masha gessen![]() He wrote an op-ed for the New York Times titled “ I’m a Ukrainian Soldier, and I’ve Accepted my Death.” Poet and filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk will speak from New York, while her husband, Artem Chapeye, a fiction writer, participates remotely from the Chornobyl exclusion zone, where he is a private in the Defense Forces.
5/22/2023 0 Comments Green rider series order![]() ![]() Her first ranger job was a seasonal position at Clara Barton National Historic Site in Maryland. Īfter completing her degree in film production, with a minor in writing, at Ithaca College in 1987, she went to work for the National Park Service in 1988 after a conversation with a park ranger during a visit to Women's Rights National Historical Park. She published her first book, a cartoon collection called Horses and Horsepeople, at the age of thirteen. The seventh book "Winterlight" was released September 2021.īritain grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where she started her first novel - an undersea fantasy featuring herself and her friends - at the age of nine. The sixth book in the Green Rider series, Firebrand, was released February 28, 2017. ![]() She wrote Green Rider (which was nominated for the Crawford Award), First Rider's Call, The High King's Tomb, Blackveil (which was nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award), and Mirror Sight. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Forgive Me Father by Garrett Leigh![]() ![]() Jeeeeeze I’m not sure exactly how to articulate just how good this third entry in Garrett’s MC series in. GARRETT JUST WENT OFF THE CHARTS WITH THIS BEYOND EPIC MC ROMANCE Content warning for violence and sexual trauma. It was Mateo’s, and the man I’d trusted with my fragile heart was a stranger more broken than his scars could ever show.įorgive Me Father is a continuation of the best-selling Rebel Kings MC series. But as I drowned in Mateo’s affection, in a love I’d done nothing to deserve, the words came tumbling out.ĭarker, even, than Mateo’s battered soul and the secrets I didn’t know about yet.īut when the devil came for us, it wasn’t mine. Not the judge, the jury, or the legal aid barrister who’d written me off before she’d ever met me. Explain it like I’m the simplest idiot you’ve ever met.” Mateo lowered himself to sit, still vibrating with the need to fix me, the way he always did. “I gave my darkest secrets to a man who doesn’t exist.” Expect: a sizzling hurt/comfort MM romance with a damaged chaplain and a dark-souled enforcer with a tender-hearted secret. ![]() |